but I've found that when you don't rush over and leave the same inane comments on their art >they stop leaving comments on yours. Thank you for small favors. :o)

Yes, and that is the sticking point here. You don´t get a comment or fave becourse your image is good but becourse you "buy" the comments for your images with your comments to other images. That´s childish, thinking about how old most of this famous artists are ;-)